Timothy Leary Quotes

I was brought up to question authority, and thank God for that.

Think for yourself. Know what you're doing. Question authority.

I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

I don't think that I have ever been rebellious. The thing is that I don't believe in people - what people tell me. I have to accept it in my own brain first. I don't listen to anyone, never.

Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society…

I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men

I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.

Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself.

I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people's ideas and thoughts and words, because I'm very independent and, I guess, a free thinker.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.

I don't believe in other people's ideas. I have my own ideas.

I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink.

Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?

My dad instilled in me to naturally question all authority. I don't follow anything blindly. That's religion, cops, doctors, schools, you name it.

The Enlightenment ideal, which all universities claim to endorse, is that everyone should think for themselves.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself

My father always told me that. "Nobody knows anything, so don't listen to anyone else."

You shouldn't be looking for the secret to making people follow fads, you should be looking for the secret to making them think for themselves. Because that's what science is all about.

People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.

One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself.

Don't follow leaders.

How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?

Question authority; think for yourself. Talk to people, do things unrelated to school - to come up with your own framework for living. The world is too complex and people are too different to be overly prescriptive about the details.